15 minors ‘sodomize teen’

A 16-year-old Mumbai boy has filed a police complaint after he was allegedly sodomized by 15 minors over a period of one year, according to media reports. Seven of the 15 boys were arrested by police and the rest were still at large.

The victim told police that he was first raped a year ago by a neighbor who shot video of the attack with his phone and circulated it among his friends. He told police that the suspect forced the victim to have sex with other minors by threatening to make the video public if he did not cooperate, The Indian Express reported.

The victim, who is in Class 9, gave the police the names of the 15 boys who raped him in a First Information Report. Most of the boys involved are his neighbors.

Two days after the last assault, which took place on June 26, the victim told a friend of his ordeal because he was in “unbearable pain.”

A police officer said, “The victim was very scared and did not tell his family about the abuse. The accused boys took the victim to a playground outside a municipal school in the area and raped him one by one.”

The officer added that one of the boys demanded Rs1,100 from the victim over the last two months. But when the victim said he did not have any money, he was taken to an isolated spot and raped again.